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PARSEME Corpora v. 2.0 - Licence Agreement

(2026/03/16)

License Terms

The Annotated corpora and tools of the PARSEME Shared Task: Subtask 1, MWE Identification (edition 2.0) is a collection of linguistic data and tools. Each of the corpora has its own license terms and you (the “User”) are responsible for complying with the license terms applicable to those parts which you use. If you do not agree with the license terms, you must stop using the corpora and destroy all copies of the data that you have obtained.


The license for every corpus included in the release is specified in the appropriate language directory. The licenses for MWE annotations (column 11) and morphological/syntactic data (columns 1-10) can be different, which is also indicated in the table below. All files in the tools/ and trial/ folders are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.


Overview of the corpora and their license terms

Language Language code MWE annotations (column 11) Morphosyntax (columns 1-10)
Egyptian EGY CC BY-SA 4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0
Greek EL CC BY 4.0 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (UD GDT, columns 1-6); GNU GPL 3.0 (the remaining data)
Farsi/Persian FA CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (special license for MULTEX-East, see README) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (special license for MULTEX-East, see README)
French FR CC BY 4.0 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (UD); LGPL-LR (Sequoia)
Ancient Greek GRC CC BY-NC 4.0 CC BY-NC-SA 2.5
Hebrew HE CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Japanese JA CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Georgian KA CC BY-NC 4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0
Latvian LV CC BY-SA 4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0
Dutch NL CC BY 4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0
Polish PL CC BY-NC 4.0 GNU GPL v.3 (columns 1-6 with source_sent_id containing NationalCorpusOfPolish), CC BY-NC 4.0 (columns 1-6 with source_sent_id containing PolishCoreferenceCorpus), and CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (columns 1-6 with source_sent_id containing pdb-ud and columns 7-9 for all sentences).
Portuguese PT CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0
Romanian RO CC BY-NC 4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0
Slovenian SL CC BY-SA 4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0
Serbian SR CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (columns 3-6), CC BY-SA 4.0 (columns 7-8)
Swedish SV CC BY 4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0
Ukrainian UK CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Licenses

License URL
GNU GPL 3.0 http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0
LGPL-LR http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/DonneesLinguistiques/Lexiques-Grammaires/lgpllr.html
CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
CC BY-SA 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
CC BY-NC 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/